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I'm almost less interested in the truth than in the sense we make of things ... which has everything and nothing to do with the truth itself.
People who can get out of themselves. People who walk in others' shoes once in a while. And people with cool shoes.
BTW - people obsessed with being cool usually bore the crap out of me.
"Lighten up, Francis."
- Sergeant Hulka, "Stripes"
In the order they came to my head: beatles, erik satie, the byrds, minimal man, brian eno, chopin, the fall, neil young, chameleons uk, the yardbirds, wire, the kinks, devo, beethoven, kraftwerk, echo & the bunnymen, the stranglers, hrvatski, the sound, the feelies, cabaret voltaire, roger miller, the other roger miller (maximum electric piano), the zombies, chrome, karl blake, dios malos, the zombies, burt bachrach, rolling stones, bauhaus, tones on tail, nick drake, Le Switch, the rain parade, zz top, adeline, adam & the ants, iron & wine, the ventures, the red krayola, eric random, wipers, 23 skidoo, the walker brothers, Dios Malos, slowdive, the yardbirds, gang of four, le switch, broadcast, neil diamond (early 70's), can, beachbuggy, swans, i, waylon jennings, radar bros., dead can dance, tipsy, atmosphere, the walker brothers, rapoon, mazzy star, glen cambell, Jerry Lee Lewis, getz/gilberto/jobim, james brown, freshly wrapped candies, prince, sly & the family, radar bros., johnny cash, dome, amp, buddy holly, trans am, eggstone, the united states of america, gram parsons, five or six, love, charlie wadhams, thin lizzy, hood, joy division, bo diddley, link wray, your mom, manhattan murder mystery, the shins, jan jelinek, antimatter, eggstone, mazzy star, townes van zandt, eagle & talon, de la sol, emmylou harris, modern english, paper planes, byrds, dylan, roxy music, the lyres, silversun picks, scott watson, richard thompson, slowdive, townes van zandt, wolf parade, malcom middleton, the gadgets, the the, add n to (x), annette peacock, burnt friedman, The 400 Blows, flanger, au pairs, king harvest, the avalanches, big star, bill nelson, good horsey, birthday party, blonde redhead, the blue nile, bonnie prince billy, the bongos, bowery electric, the boomtown rats, bourbonese qualk, minimal compact, bright, the vehicle birth, the human league, bunnydrums, camberwell now, this heat, caberet voltaire, casino versus japan, caravan, the chocolate watchband, the dbs, fennesz, clinic, the close lobsters, cluster, hans roedelius, coil, lusine, the cramps, crispy ambulance, section 25, daedalus, dauerfisch, deerhoof, department of eagles, derrick Carter, eggstone, liars, fairport convention, white noise, firehose, the minutemen, fly pan am, fuxa, the halfler trio, hatfield & the north, harold budd, havergal, hawkwind, harmonia, guided by voices, holger hiller, hrvatski, home, the hollies, shallow be thy name, kiln, gerry rafferty, isan, I, jj cale, james gang, terry riley, john foxx, ultravox, mahjongg, jon hassell, julia lee, the kingsbury manx, bill withers, The Velvet Underground, Bowie, Television, Richard Hell, Iggy, John Cale, The Birthday Party, The Go-Betweens, Pavement, mission of burma, birdsongs of the mesozoic, James Chance and The Contortions, Flying Burrito Brothers, Emmylou Harris, The Small Faces, Coltrane, Nancy Sinatra, Elliot Smith, Iris Demente, Rodd Keith, ABBA, Bread... I don't usually care too much about how good, bad or cool it is. As time goes on, the more I just care about how much I like it.
Some favs: 8 1/2, It's a Wonderful Life, Citizen Kane, Ferris Beuller, Birdy, Bottle Rocket, The Conversation, Cool Hand Luke, Spinal Tap, Edward Scissorhands, The Anchorman, Idiocracy, anything with Stevie Triechel in it, The Bicycle Thief, Something Wild, The Spy Who Loved Me, Il Vitalino, The 400 Blows, Brubaker, Rushmore, Short Cuts, Wild at Heart, Blue Velvet, Better off Dead, Breakfast Club, Bottle Rocket, 13 Conversations about Nothing, The Player, The Filth and the Fury, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, M, Belly of an Architect, old Bogey movies, ... I'll come back to this. Lately, Pan's Labyrinth, Freda, Broken Flowers, Junebug, Little Miss Sunshine, Off The Charts: the Songpoems Story ... was the last thing I saw that blew me away. I can't type anymore.
I have one.
In No Order and only what comes to mind (I don't have my bookshelf handy): Herman Hesse, Flannery O'Connor, Raymond Carver, Vonnegut, JD Salinger, Carl Jung, Donald Bartheleme, Stevie Smith, Jack Kerouac, Nabokov, Jerzey Kozinski, Paul Bowles, Don Delillo, Phillip Larkin, Rick Bass, Wallace Stevens, Dashiel Hammett, Dostoyevsky, Shirley Jackson, Bazooka Joe comics, Migrane Boy comics, Kafka, Jay McInerny, David Sedaris, Salinger, Hemingway, Lester Bangs, Julio Cortazar, The 1983 Ground Round menu, lately more history / non-fiction & political stuff.